The Mind Creative FEB 2014
Agatha Christie, according to
the Guinness Book of World
Records, is the best-selling
novelist of all time and her
novels have sold around 4
billion copies. It is also
rumoured that among the
world’s
most
published
books, Christie's works rank
third, after those of William
Shakespeare and the Bible.
The creator of such fictional
characters as Hercule Poirot
and Miss Marple, her works
have been translated into at
least 103 languages and her
novel “And Then There Were None”, with over 100 million copies
sold, is considered to be the most successful mystery novel ever
written and one of the most successful books of all time.
However, the most intriguing mystery of Christie’s life involved her
own disappearance on 3rd December 1926 for 11 days, followed by
a nation-wide search and then, 50 years later, a cryptic séance in
Istanbul that led to a room key that supposedly held the evasive
solution to this endearing mystery. A plot that seemed like a classic
Agatha Christie novel itself.
For sometime, Christie had been dealing with a lot of stress and
tragedy, including her mother's death and the revelation of her
husband's long-time affair. Her newest novel, The Mysterious Affair
of Styles, though selling well, was also met with criticism. On the
morning of December 3rd, Christie had an argument with her
husband, Colonel Archibald Christie (Archie) which was presumed to
be about his upcoming trip. Christie however believed he was
planning to see his mistress Nancy Neele. Later that same day, she
wrote letters to her husband